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"Tkuma" Institute has experience in organization and conduction of educational events for school and university students, school teachers. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, regional institutes of advanced teacher training, "Tkuma" Institute organized special system of seminars for improvement of teachers' skills.
"Tkuma" Institute has unique experience in creating textbooks. School History textbooks created by "Tkuma" Institute won All-Ukrainian State Contests and were released in hundreds of thousands of copies.
"Tkuma" Institute effectively cooperates with regional office of Junior Academy of Sciences. On the base of "Tkuma" Institute winter and summer sessions of JAS are conducted. During this events school students have an opportunity to work with the Holocaust museum holdings, consult the Institute and Museum research associates and meet famous Ukrainian and foreign scholars.
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On February 6-7, the History faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk National University conducted the second stage of the Ukrainian Competition and Defense of the Research Works of the Students-Members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This year “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust became a partner of this competition.
Dr. Igor Shchupak, Institute Director, and Denis Shatalov, Institute Research Associate, became the members of Expert Committee and participated in the defense in the sections “History of Ukraine” and “Local History Studies”.
In his speech, Dr. Shchupak emphasized the need of studying the tragic events of the 20th century as the basis for formation of tolerance in the society. The Institute Director told students and their curators about the prospects of cooperation between young researchers and “Tkuma” Institute, including the possibility of taking part in national and international seminars and competitions. In addition, “Tkuma” Institute plans to publish the collection of the best works.
Read more: Holocaust Researches Presented at the Small Academy of Sciences
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On January 27-28, pedagogical seminar dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, for history teachers and educators from all over Ukraine, was held. The seminar provided for the exchange of experience in teaching the World War II and the Holocaust history; discussion of the possibilities of using educational potential of these topics and problems of teaching the World War II and the Holocaust history during the current war against Ukraine.
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On January 26, Kyiv hosted the opening of the exhibition “Auschwitz Concentration Camp – Ukrainian Dimension. Research, Documents, Testimonies” dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The organizers of the event are: the National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the G.S. Pshenychny Central State Archive. Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies took part in creation of the exhibitions. Our Museum handed over a number of unique exhibits that would be on display at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War along with other exhibits.
The exhibition presents about 300 objects that tell the story of our compatriots – prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp and soldiers of the First Ukrainian Front, who liberated Auschwitz. Among the exhibits there are documentary materials of the participants of the liberation of a concentration camp and its prisoners: prisoners of war, members of Ukrainian liberation movement, Ostarbeiters, Ukrainian Jews.
The exhibition was opened by Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, Minister of Culture; Volodymyr Vyatrovych, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and Ivan Kovalchuk, Director of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. Igor Shchupak, Candidate of Historical Sciences, “Tkuma” Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Director took part in the opening ceremony.
The Minister of Culture said that we can draw parallels between those events and Ukrainian realities. “The conditions in which Ukrainian prisoners are now, all those mockeries only prove that between German Nazism and current Russian imperialism there is almost no difference” – Vyacheslav Kyrylenko is quoted by UNIAN site.
The event ended with a round table, which was attended by prominent Ukrainian historians
Dr. V. Vyatrovych, Prof. A. Lysenko, V. Nachmanowych, Prof. I. Patryliak, Dr. Igor Shchupak and others.
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On January 21, 2015 "Tkuma" Institute staff conducted the presentation of Educational Mobile Exhibitions "The Holocaust in Ukraine" and "Righteous Among the Nations" for pupils of Sumy secondary schools. During the event Iryna Piskariova, "Tkuma" Institute Educational Programs Coordinator, and Dilfuza Hlushchenko, "Tkuma" Institute and the Museum Research Associate, actualized the children's knowledge of the history of World War II and the Holocaust, on the base of exhibition banners told students about the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as got them acquainted with some stories of Ukrainian Righteous among the Nations.
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On January 21, "Tkuma" Institute in cooperation with Sumy Regional Institute of Advanced Teacher Training conducted pedagogical seminar for History teachers "Problems of teaching World War II and the Holocaust History". During the seminar "Tkuma" Staff conducted lecture on educational potential of the topic of World War II and the Holocaust as well as conducted presentation of "Tkuma" Institute and Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" activities.